Dr Ayla Göl is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Humanities, York St John University, UK. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where she had an early career position at the Department of International Relations. Dr Göl previously worked in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University in Türkiye. Dr Göl has held Visiting Scholar positions at Australian National University, University of Cambridge and the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Turkey Facing East: Islam, Modernity and Foreign Policy, and numerous articles in journals and book chapters on Turkey, the Middle East and IR.